Step 1 - Create an LVM partition for your new VPS - do this on both boxes: lvcreate -n mcbox -L 5G acerbox Explanation: Create a partition named 'mcbox' on volume 'acerbox' with the size of 5GB - Find your own volume name with 'pvdisplay' Step 2 - Edit the drbd conf (you should probably create a ressource file instead of using the flatfile like I do) - do this on both boxes: nano /etc/drbd.d/global_common.conf RESSOURCE EXAMPLE DATA - fujbox = server 1, acerbox = server 2. Needs to be resolvable by DNS on both servers (hosts file or your own local DNS server): # mcbox resource drbd0 { on fujbox { disk /dev/fujbox/mcbox; device /dev/drbd0; meta-disk internal; address 10.0.0.9:7788; } on acerbox { disk /dev/acerbox/mcbox; device /dev/drbd0; meta-disk internal; address 10.0.0.12:7788; } } Step 3 - Initialize the new ressource - do this on both boxes: drbdadm create-md drbd0 Step 4 - Attach the disk - do this on both boxes: drbdadm attach drbd0 (attach internally) Step 5 - Mark 1 box as primary master to fetch the data - do this on ONE of the boxes: drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary drbd0 drbdadm primary --force drbd0 Step 6 - Establish network connection and start sync drbdadm connect drbd0